Ken Loach
Director
Dispatches (1987)
1991
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Released Oct. 30, 1987
Episode 44 min
10+
Genres: Documentary, News
Keywords: tmdb.current-affairs, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.expose, tmdb.investigative-journalism, tmdb.secret-filming, imdb.investigative-journalism, imdb.reporter + 7 more, imdb.secret-filming, imdb.expose, imdb.interview, imdb.long-running-tv, imdb.current-affairs, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: ITN Productions, Bigger Bang, Hardcash Productions
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S5E1 - Giant of the Gulf
Jan. 9, 1991, midnight
S5E2 - What Happened at Christmas Island
Jan. 16, 1991, midnight
S5E3 - Mr Bush's Road to War
Jan. 23, 1991, midnight
S5E4 - Hanson Trust
Jan. 29, 1991, midnight
S5E5 - Saddam's Secret Army
Jan. 30, 1991, midnight
S5E6 - Crackdown
Feb. 6, 1991, midnight
S5E7 - Skeletons Have Names
Feb. 13, 1991, midnight
S5E8 - The Provoked Wife
Feb. 20, 1991, midnight
S5E9 - Thinking of the Soldier
Feb. 27, 1991, midnight
S5E10 - Voices From Tibet
March 6, 1991, midnight
S5E11 - A Very British Recession
March 13, 1991, midnight
S5E12 - Keep On Running
March 20, 1991, midnight
S5E13 - Strange Case of Democracy
March 27, 1991, midnight
S5E14 - Sir John's Shuttle
April 3, 1991, midnight
S5E15 - A Dream Betrayed
April 10, 1991, midnight
S5E16 - Tapping into Toxnet
April 17, 1991, midnight
S5E17 - Mr Major's Number 10
April 24, 1991, midnight
S5E18 - The Promised Land
May 1, 1991, midnight
S5E19 - The Ballot Fixers
May 8, 1991, midnight
S5E20 - The Arthur Legend
May 22, 1991, midnight
S5E21 - Saddam's Iraq
May 29, 1991, midnight
S5E22 - Castro's Secret Fix
June 5, 1991, midnight
S5E23 - The Movement
June 12, 1991, midnight
S5E24 - The Committee
Oct. 2, 1991, midnight
S5E25 - Strange Customs
Oct. 9, 1991, midnight
S5E26 - In the Cleaning Machine
Oct. 16, 1991, midnight
S5E27 - Every Child in Britain
Oct. 23, 1991, midnight
S5E28 - Georgian Nightmare
Oct. 30, 1991, midnight
S5E29 - Missing in Action
Nov. 6, 1991, midnight
S5E30 - The Swiss Connection
Nov. 13, 1991, midnight
S5E31 - The Last Taboo
Nov. 20, 1991, midnight
S5E32 - The Truth that Sets Us Free
Nov. 27, 1991, midnight
S5E33 - Don King, Unauthorised
Dec. 4, 1991, midnight
S5E34 - Holding the Baby
Dec. 11, 1991, midnight
S5E35 - Christmas in Kurdistan
Dec. 18, 1991, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 44 min.
Season Runtime: 16796 min.
Released: Oct. 30, 1987
Last Air Date: Oct. 13, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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